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Voicebot and Chatbot Design

By : Rachel Batish
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Voicebot and Chatbot Design

By: Rachel Batish

Overview of this book

We are entering the age of conversational interfaces, where we will interact with AI bots using chat and voice. But how do we create a good conversation? How do we design and build voicebots and chatbots that can carry successful conversations in in the real world? In this book, Rachel Batish introduces us to the world of conversational applications, bots and AI. You’ll discover how - with little technical knowledge - you can build successful and meaningful conversational UIs. You’ll find detailed guidance on how to build and deploy bots on the leading conversational platforms, including Amazon Alexa, Google Home, and Facebook Messenger. You’ll then learn key design aspects for building conversational UIs that will really succeed and shine in front of humans. You’ll discover how your AI bots can become part of a meaningful conversation with humans, using techniques such as persona shaping, and tone analysis. For successful bots in the real world, you’ll explore important use-cases and examples where humans interact with bots. With examples across finance, travel, and e-commerce, you’ll see how you can create successful conversational UIs in any sector. Expand your horizons further as Rachel shares with you her insights into cutting-edge voicebot and chatbot technologies, and how the future might unfold. Join in right now and start building successful, high impact bots!
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Voicebot and Chatbot Design
Contributors
Preface
Other Book You May Enjoy
Index

Summary


As you may have realized by now, building a voice-enabled application is a thrilling experience, however, it is not necessarily an easy task for non-developers, or even for developers. This is also true for the Amazon Developer console, as well as the Google Assistant / Home console. Today, those tools are not ready for non-developers and still require coding and programming on many different levels. To fill this gap, some startup companies, such as Storyline, PullString, and Jovo, provide simplified tools to build voice applications for Alexa. I would recommend referring to one of them if you are looking to build simple use cases that can be supported using a state machine (see more about the state-machine structure in previous chapters). Very few tools today provide a visual and simple interface for more complex use cases (my company, Conversation.one, included).

As voice UI and UX are just evolving, it only makes sense that those tools will change and evolve. I anticipate that...